White Stripes -- Icky Thump

  Man ... I almost liked everything these guys ever did, but I especially hated this one ... sorry ... but this was a total load of horse dung!  I had to skip every song, if you can call these Led Zep keyboard/ guitared disasters songs.  Two icky thumbs way down!

Guided By Voices -- Bee Thousand

  Quintessential Lo-Fi album by Guided By Voices.  Recorded purposely to sound bad, but like the Sonics, it's done so to add character.  Unlike most Lo-Fi bands, these guys take less focus on the artsy-fartsy stuff, instead they play some well versed Rock 'n' Roll.  Bee Thousand is a must for any Indie connoisseur. 

Eric's Trip -- Love Tara

  Folksy Grunge Punk Canadian legends Eric's Trip were one of the, if not the, best band our country had to offer the world.  Rick White was like our Neil Young of the 90's, especially if you were Canadian, no one was making music as cool as these guys, and Love Tara was able to compete with the American Indie giants.

Beck -- Mellow Gold

  A friend and I decided that we are taking Beck's Mellow Gold back and away from the jocks, who goddam ruined it for me so many years ago.  Why do we do it ... the freaks, the initial taste makers, always toss out stuff once the screwheads pick it up, it's like all of a sudden it becomes obsolete and stupid.  But there isn't anything stupid, other than a dumb slacker vibe, about Beck's Lo-Fi/ Anti-Folk opus, which is NOW back in the hands of the weirdos!!  HOORAY!

Tame Impala -- Innerspeaker

  So there I was drinking too much at my buddie's house, I got totally twisted, then slammed skateboarding home, hard, I hit a manhole bombing a hill!  Point is he played this Indie Beatlesesque masterpiece.  I loved it so much I insisted he burn it for me right away!

M. Ward -- Hold Time

  M. Ward's Hold Time mixes the sweet sound of Indie Folk music with the lush cool Rockabilly-ish guitar noodling style of T. Rex and 70's minimalist Spectorized drum beats!  Point is I loved it, especially his cover of Buddy Holly's Rave On!

Feist -- Metals

  After a four year hiatus Feist makes her personal best album, the release is initially hard to get into because it's feel is abstract and broken, focusing on the notes rather than the tune.  Seems like the twenty-tens bands are all about the more the merrier, and orchestrally arranged Indie Canadianana has taken over, we are no longer the yokels who's biggest bands are Nickelback and Great Big Sea ... no no ... we kick f*ckin' ass now!